Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 5° in Taurus. Please keep ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “Europa Clipper”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNASA is launching its newest robotic mission in October. Its goal will be to study Jupiter's moon Europa, currently considered one of the best candidates for life in our Solar ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...
Solar Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in three different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light and directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will take place. During ...
STEM Expansion: “Computer Coding”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThis program offers advanced topics, activity extensions and all-new games and demonstrations to older youth. Certificates are earned and archived as well as modern experiments take place. There are also giveaways ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...
Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Spooky Sampler”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryIt's Halloween season. This lecture slot will be used to highlight a smorgasbord of unsettling stories, images and theories--for our adult audience.
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryCANCELLED Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking ...
Science Academy: “The Spooky Session”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryIt's the Saturday before the Spooky Spectrum! Cadets will preview some of that event's concepts, experiencing creepy legends and tales from the annals of space exploration while delving into a ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryCANCELLED Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 7° in Libra. Please ...
The Spooky Spectrum
Highland Road Park ObservatoryCome visit on this moonlit night--if you dare--as HRPO delves into the eerie side of astronomy, physics and aeronautics. We'll have creepy science demonstrations, some of which have never been ...
Comet Viewing
Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, LouisianaWeather permitting, an attempt to view of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will take place at the Burbank Soccer Complex. The device operators will be in the back of the Complex ...